Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Hiya, Peeps!! Today, I have a little peek of one of the brand new Saturated Canary Stamps in rubb-ah! Wanna peek at the catalogue? The whole shebang??? HERE ya go! Straight from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.

I gotta say, Vampire Rose is one of my absolute FAVE stamps from Saturated Canary! She was the very first one I colored, and I'm super happy I was able to color her up to help Little Darlings showcase Krista's first release of Saturated Canary in rubber this summer at CHA.

Dig the little blingy spider! I know. I'm easily amused ;-)

And the close-up...

YAY FOR RUBB-AH!! Oh, wow. That sounds way worse out loud than it did in my head. EEP!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

I found my inspiration while trolling the Viva Las Vegas Stamps website. Have you been there??? Oh, MAN!!! That place is a virtual stampy feast for the eyes!

When I saw plate 1403, I knew my project was soon-to-be, garden-tastic!!

Cut to me wandering the aisles of my local Dollar Tree, where I found a FAB set of pressboard plaques. The fact that they were sportin' some birdies, only made it that much easier for me to glue, paint and FIX!!!

Here are the deets:

I covered the plaques with some Gauche Alchemy ephemera...

...and lightly whitewashed over it with some gesso. I still wanted a bit of the print to show through.

Each plaque got a Staz-On garden...

...and a bit of glimmery color.

OK. A LOT of glimmery color!!

I colored in my flowers a little more precisely with more mist and a paint brush.

SPLATTERS!!! These splatters were created with a clear mist. It kinda pooled the existing color to add a fun bokeh effect :-)

A little spray sealant should keep my finished garden colorful and just how I left it.

I decided to fill my garden with little 'garden gnomes'!! I chose 'wee' photos of each of my 'babies' and sized, print and cut them out.

I truly love these plaques!! They're colorful, and best of all, they allow me to keep my babies with me. Tiny. Forever.

Now, hop on over and check out the rest of this weeks projects on the Viva Las Vegas and Gauche Alchemy blogs. Commenting gets your name into the pot for some Gauche goodies or a solid POUND of Viva Las Vegas rubb-ah!!!